What is social entrepreneurship?
Social Entrepreneurship (n)
- Recognizing and resourcefully pursuing opportunities to create social value
- Crafting innovative approaches to addressing critical social needs
Social entrepreneurship is the process of recognizing and resourcefully pursuing opportunities to create social value. Social entrepreneurs are innovative, resourceful, and results oriented. They draw upon the best thinking in both the business and nonprofit worlds to develop strategies that maximize their social impact. These entrepreneurial leaders operate in all kinds of organizations: large and small; new and old; religious and secular; nonprofit, for-profit, and hybrid. These organizations comprise the “social sector.”
| “What business entrepreneurs are to the economy, social entrepreneurs are to social change. They are the driven, creative individuals who question the status quo, exploit new opportunities, refuse to give up, and remake the world for the better.” David Bornstein, Author How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Idea |
